Academic research includes several coordinated stages and processes – proper study and/or experimental design, study implementation, data collection and analysis, then finally the publication. During these stages and ending with publication, author should be aware of ethical code of conducted by researchers at every stage. Generally, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is an international forum for both editors and publishers that define publication ethics and advises editors on how to handle cases of research and publications. The publication ethics including constitutional and ethics approval, experimental design, up-to-date consent, data handling and research scheme, plagiarism, simultaneous submission, duplicate publication, self-citation, consent to reproduce published material, ethics of authorship, and conflicts of interest.

The manuscript must meets animal ethical guidelines and legal requirements of the country in which paper was performed.